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> What political party is going to promise you a girlfriend?

You've unframed and changed my speech so much that it looks stupid. Obviously, you conclude that this is stupid: You're right!

I'm saying: If you don't want me to vote for Trump/FN, then instead of shaming me all the time "because he's from a rich familiy, therefore he doesn't deserve consideration, even if he works hard and donates a lot", try to intervene at the private/social level by having solidarity with people's situation. If you give those people some love, and fix their lives, they'll start voting differently.



I'm actually with you as far as the missing empathy and a lack of will to even listen is concerned, but I must say I too find the bit about the girl friend odd and I think it distracts from the (IMHO) good points you made. Look at it this way: This is an "outlier" statement among everything you said, so a reader's brain is going to pay more attention to it then to the rest.

Here is what you could have said (the very short version):

You could have made a good point that part of the problem of getting a girl friend is the freakin' amount of uncertainty in our lives. You can't be sure where you live and where you get an income from. That is a big problem for stable relationships.

After reading more of your comments I'm not sure if you actually meant it literally though, meaning your own personal issues instead of the wider political picture, which I would not want to comment on.


Apparently you think very highly of yourself. Is it possible you aren't as great as you think you are?


Where on earth did you get that? Are you just trying to prove his point?


Ah, apparently I replied to the wrong comment.




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